I think you all know by now that I work at the same high school Jacob attends. This can be a very convenient at times, like when you run out of lunch money, school supplies, or need a schedule change your mom is nearby for a loan or to call in a favor. Today was not one of those days. Jacob needed to pick up some tickets from his Coach and I felt the need to remind him. The bell rang and I knew that Jacob had a class just down the hall and would be passing by the library. I unobtrusively opened the back door and stepped into the hallway waiting for Jacob to pass. I spotted him before he saw me. His face lit up and I realized his face hasn't lit up like that for me since he was maybe three or four so I glanced around the corner to see a young lady with the same expression on her face...and there I am in the middle. My dilemma...do I step quietly back into the library, or do I say what I came to say? Tell me what you'd do and in a few days I'll tell you the rest of the story.
Jacob tells me that he saw me as I quietly retreated into the library without saying a word. He said I looked like I was all over the place. I guess my indecision showed all over my face. I will from now on, I will say what I came to say. I mean really, how embarrassing can I be to my teenage son in the hallway at school during class change with all his friends around?
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Never allow an opportunity to embarrass someone slip by, after all life is fleeting. You could have done the whole mushy mommy thing complete with licking your thumb and wiping is face then finish by turning away and saying (loudly) mommy loves you sugar bear. Or you could have tried to act hip with an over the top gangsta talk with lots of J-dizzles and exploding fist bumps then pimp walk away while beat boxing. The choices are pretty well limitless.
However, if you just said hey Jake don't forget to get the tickets from your coach and just ducked back in or just kept walking like seeing him and saying something was secondary to what you were doing instead of the main purpose of your skulking ambush.
Wow, quite a run on sentence if ever I read one. That's what I get for responding before lunch time.(when I finally start waking up)
But I should get bonus points for using the word skulking in a sentence. I mean really, when is the last time you've heard anyone use the term skulk in normal conversation?
Heard it last weekend while spending a wonderful few minutes in the Paris Tn county sherriffs office....I was not being incarcerated just to clarify...
Conjugal visit?
Not this time...seems it was bring your illegitimate children to jail to visit the babies daddy night... oh good times. Speaking of conjugal visit, let me know if next weekend is cool for me to come
up there?
You know I just read that and it sounds like I was taking an illegitimate child to see his baby daddy...correction, the others in the jail seemed as if this were their reason for visiting the fine establishment. I will clarify one other thing....I was checking in a deer I shot a few hours earlier. And now you know the rest of the story. I also learned that you can have Huddle House 2 NIGHTS IN A ROW and not die
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